For now, to access the live stream of the debut episode, you have to act fast:

A podcast wouldn’t be any fun without a live stream.

That’s precisely why we’re inviting the first 100 people to fill out the form below and join us live at 12pm Pacific on Wednesday, February 1st, 2012 for the debut of “Fantastic Disaster”, the most awful podcast yet from the moron behind such forgettable works as “Portland Sucks”, “Cascadia.fm”, and probably a few other things that would be listed between quotation marks.

The exhibitor list is impressive, featuring dozens of wineries, half a dozen restaurants, several breweries, and lots more.

Tickets are $12 ($8 for kids under 12 and seniors 65 and older – kids 5 and under get in free). Friday the festival opens at 2pm, Saturday at noon, and both days it’s open until 10pm. The first 300 people through the gate each day receive a commemorative wine glass. And a Fred Meyer Rewards Card gets you $2 off admission. $.50 of every $10 ticket goes directly to the Oregon Chapter of the National MS Society.

Wine sampling starts at 50 cents and food prices start at $1.

Visit the festival website for more details, including a map of exhibitors and the event schedule.

Julia Ruuttila was a labor and investigative journalist, a poet and fiction writer, and a union, peace, and justice activist who lived all but a few years of her life in Oregon.

She founded a defense committee that freed a union martyr after twenty years in the penitentiary, headed the Woodworkers Ladies’ Auxiliary during an 8-month lockout, stood up to the inquisitors of the House Un-American Activities Committee, and got fired from a state job for her coverage of the Vanport Flood. Yet none of these qualified for what she claimed was her proudest moment.

The presenter is Sandy Polishuk, author of Sticking to the Union: An Oral History of the Life and Times of Julia Ruuttila.